So, Daycare is expensive ..... Costing it out, it seems as if it's going to cost the same as a second mortgage.

On a side note, anyone have experience with Montessori programs/daycares? I know what I've read online and talking to people within education regarding montessori, but just curious to see if any of the other parents here have gone that route.

If both parents work it is a necessity. Even with full day kindergarten, it starts at 9:00 and kids get off school at 3:00ish and parents don't get home until 6:00.

CG - I don't have any Montessori experience but I am on the board for my local daycare and know a fair bit about that sector if you want to pm me any questions.

I always went to a in house day care, my aunt used to do it, so I went there. It tends to be A LOT cheaper. Also they have after school programs for kids I believe, PLASP is what it is called. Not sure if it starts in kindergarten or just Grade school though

We've looked at daycares that are home-based, but there's a bit of a trust issue on that front as it's more of a wild-west format out there.

Once she's able to enter into Kindergarten/Gr. 1 then there will be a grandparent there to pick her up as both my parents will *likely* be retired or working part-time.

They tend to always be like that, It is easier if you know the person personally. But yeah, daycare is expensive. I know some people where they send their kid 3 out of the 5 days. The other two, they go to their grand parents house or something.

They tend to always be like that, It is easier if you know the person personally. But yeah, daycare is expensive. I know some people where they send their kid 3 out of the 5 days. The other two, they go to their grand parents house or something.

Part-time ends working out the same as full-time care. We looked into it and just shook our heads. Plus, not all schools offer it.

To give you an example, one part-time that we talked to was 1795/month and full time was 1825/month. Not significant savings.

i also strongly encourage you to read the indian act. if you want more original sources, the jesuit relations are an excellent source, as long as you acknowledge the tremendous bias.

here are a few points regarding the iroquois nations:

-property was a communal thing before european settlement. it is impossible to properly negotiate a treaty based on land when the people you are negotiating with don't think of land as something that anyone can own.

-the indian act also made families patrilineal, which is crazy, since family ties in iroquois society were matrilineal.

these two things completely destroyed the core of their social order, eroded family histories and made it impossible for them to compete.

the final straw was the reserve system. first they introduced property rights, and then they removed the societies from being able to participate in that system of ownership. this basically took them right out of the system of free exchange that was being implemented.

those are awesome points trane, I wouldn't have thought about any of those points you listed

seems pretty damn interesting too, I'm about to take a look at the indian act. based on the points you listed it seems like I wont run out of things to say. the list of damage European colonizers did to first natives people seems endless

thanks for the help, I feel some of my anxiety regarding this paper disappearing already. i think i made it out to be harder than it actually is

-remember that the various first nations were very different from one another. Speak about 1 group or speak about how europeans treated them, at times, as if they were the same. Don't lump them together.